The Meaning and Use of Baptizein (Classic Reprint): Philologically and Historically Investigated, for the American Bible Union: Philologically and ... the American Bible Union (Classic Reprint)

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by the american bible union, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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TO THE READER.
The question may be asked: "Why, in a revision of the English New Testament, professedly designed to represent the latest results of critical learning in all respects, is one particular instance of change distinguished, by being made the subject of a separate treatise ? *To this I answer:
1. The meaning of the Greek word baptizein has been so obscured, by the denominational controversies which have sprung up "within the last two centuries, that nothing less than a complete historical exhibition of its use, both in pagan and christian Greek literature, would suffice to place the matter in a clear light.
2. In substituting the literal English meaning of this word for its Anglicized form, in a revision of the New Testament for popular use, the writer feels that a just deference' to public opinion, as well as to christian feeling, requires that the reasons of this change should be fully set forth. It is believed, that the method adopted in the investigation will commen

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